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News Inbrief JANUARY 12, 2019 Mirror-SpeTHE ARMENIAN ctator Volume LXXXIX, NO. 25, Issue 4569 $ 2.00 NEWS The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 INBRIEF Efforts Underway for Meeting Between Foreign Ministers YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — International mediators are trying to organize another meeting of Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s foreign ministers later this month, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, January 8. “The [US, Russian and French] co-chairs of the [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe] OSCE Minsk Group have proposed a meet- ing of the foreign ministers in January,” the min- istry spokeswoman, Anna Naghdalyan, told the Armenpress news agency. “An announcement on the meeting will be made in a coordinated manner.” Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov held three face-to-face meetings in the second half of 2018. According to the co-chairs, at their most recent talks held in Milan on December 5 Mnatsakanyan and Mammadyarov pledged to “work intensively to The service at St. Gregory’s Church in Yerevan promote a peaceful resolution of the conflict and to further reduce tensions.” “They agreed to meet again in early 2019 under Karekin II Champions ‘Strong Family’ in Christmas Mass the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs for this purpose and in order to facilitate high-level YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Prime Minister urged Armenians to stick to their tradition- path of salvation began with the family. It talks,” the mediating troika said in a December 6 Nikol Pashinyan and other Armenian officials al family values in the face of “pseudo-lib- is from the family that the illumined road … statement. attend a Christmass mass at St. Gregory’s eralism” as he celebrated a Christmas mass was borne out of,” he said in a homily read Both ministers described the Milan meeting as Cathedral in Yerevan, January 6, 2019. on Sunday. out at Saint Gregory the Illuminator’s “useful.” Mammadyarov said that it resulted in a The supreme head of the Armenian “In the miracle-laden scene of the Holy Cathedral in Yerevan. rare “mutual understanding” between the two par- Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, Nativity, dearly beloved, we see that the see CHRISTMAS, page 3 ties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The ministers met in the Italian city the day before Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev spoke to each Anti-Armenian other at a summit of ex-Soviet states held in Russia. “The year 2019 will give a new impetus to the Tension Rising in Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict set- tlement process,” Aliyev wrote on his Twitter page Kazakhstan after on December 14. New Year’s Eve Tom Catena Registers Murder Marriage in Armenia YEREVAN (Panorama.am) — Dr. Tom Catena, the ASTANA, Kazakhstan (RFE/RL) — 2017 Aurora Prize Laureate, and his wife have offi- Armenia’s foreign minister, national police cially registered their marriage here. chief and human rights ombudsman have “So happy to finally have our marriage with Nasima spoken with their Kazakh counterparts by officially registered in Yerevan, Armenia. Thank you all phone on Monday, January 7, following for being with us on this special day,” Catena tweeted Topping Off Ceremony raising the final structural steel beam (January 4, 2019). anti-Armenian protests sparked by the mur- on Tuesday, January 8, sharing images from the cere- der of a young man in Kazakhstan. mony at the Civil Registry Office. NAASR to Name Its New Headquarters after The Kazakh man was stabbed to death in Catena, a Catholic missionary from New York, was Historian, Philanthropist Vartan Gregorian a clash between two groups of youths, one named as Aurora Prize Laureate on May 28, 2017. of which consisted of ethnic Armenians, He saved thousands of lives as the sole surgeon per- during celebrations of New Year on BELMONT, Mass. — The National Association manently based in Sudan’s war-ravaged Nuba January 1. Three other men were hospital- Mountains where humanitarian aid is restricted. for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) will ized with stab wounds. name its new headquarters after Dr. Vartan The Aurora Prize, granted by the Aurora The brawl broke out in a restaurant in Humanitarian Initiative, is created on behalf of the Gregorian, president of the philanthropic founda- the central Kazakh city of Qaraghandy in tion Carnegie Corporation of New York, fulfilling survivors of the Armenian Genocide and in grati- the early hours of 2019. tude to their saviors. the request of the building’s principle benefac- Local police said they arrested two eth- tors, Edward and Pamela Avedisian of Lexington. nic Armenian men and are hunting for The new building’s official name will be the another in connection with the violence. NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building. On Sunday, some 200 protesters gath- “Vartan Gregorian embodies the values at the ered in front of Qaraghandy’s regional INSIDE heart of NAASR’s mission. He has dedicated his police department and demanded thor- entire life to educational advancement and the ough investigations into the killing. Some pursuit of knowledge, engaging in public service Dr. Vartan Gregorian, left, of them demanded that Armenians be see NAASR, page 9 and Edward Avedisian deported from the country. The Qaraghandy regional governor, Mr. Five Erlan Qoshanov, met with the protesters and said that “all those responsible for the Armenian Government to Hold death will be prosecuted.” “I promise you … Percent that the main suspect, who remains at More Talks on Russian Gas Price large, will be detained in two-three days,” Page 12 Qoshanov said. YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Armenia’s gov- per thousand cubic meters. The A statement posted on the governor’s ernment and Russian-owned gas distribu- announcement followed fresh talks held website stressed that the brawl “was not tion network have yet to agree on new by the Gazprom chairman, Alexei Miller, ethnically motivated.” It warned that peo- INDEX retail prices of Russian natural gas supplied and Grigoryan as well as phone conversa- ple trying to incite ethnic hatred might face Arts and Living . 12 to Armenian households and corporate tions between Russian President Vladimir criminal prosecution as well. Armenia . 2,3 consumers, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Participants at the Karaganda rally were Community News. 6 Grigoryan said on Monday, January 7. Pashinyan. ostensibly there to demand that the author- Editorial . 18 The Gazprom giant announced on New Earlier on December 31, Pashinyan ities inform them about the progress of International . 4,5 Year’s Eve that it has raised its wholesale assured Armenians that they will not pay their investigation and to punish those gas price for Armenia from $150 to $165 see GAS, page 2 see TENSIONS, page 5 2 S ATURDAY, J ANUARY 1 2 , 2 0 1 9 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Karabakh Parties Call for Carpet Production Grew In 2018 Kocharyan’s Release YEREVAN (Panorama.am) — Armenia saw a strong growth in production volumes of carpet and carpet STEPANAKERT (RFE/RL) — what was then Soviet Armenia. He Pashinyan accused the critics of coverings in the first eleven months of 2018, the lat- Nagorno-Karabakh’s three leading became Karabakh’s top government misinterpreting what Mikaelyan est statistics reveal. parliamentary parties have called on official in 1992 during its war with meant to say. He specifically lambast- The country manufactured 24.3 tons of carpet and authorities in Armenia to release Azerbaijan. ed the Karabakh leadership, accusing carpet coverings from January to November last Robert Kocharyan, the Karabakh-born Kocharyan, 64, governed Karabakh it of “meddling” in the Armenian par- year, up by 59.9 percent from the same period of former president facing coup charges, until becoming Armenia’s prime min- liamentary race. 2017, when 4.2 tons were produced. from custody. ister in 1997. He served as the coun- Mnatsakanyan was sacked on Armenia’s carpet production volumes constituted In a joint statement issued over the try’s president from 1998-2008. December 14. mostly a decrease in 2017, yet recorded increase per weekend, the Free Fatherland, The Karabakh parties called for the annum. In particular, 19.8 tons of carpets and car- Democratic Artsakh and Movement-88 ex-president’s release two days after pet coverings were manufactured in Armenia last parties said Kocharyan should be the unrecognized republic’s president, year, showing a rise of 10 percent from 2016. freed pending investigation “given his Bako Sahakyan, met with Pashinyan New Arrest considerable contribution to the in Yerevan. Sahakyan’s office said More Women Lawmakers establishment of the two Armenian vaguely that they discussed coopera- Warrant Issued In Parliament For former YEREVAN (Armenpress) — The number of female Criminal lawmakers will be 32 in the new Parliament of Armenia: their number was 18 in the previous con- Investigator vocation Parliament, reports Armenpress. The females will comprise nearly 25 percent of YEREVNA (RFE/RL) — A 132 MPs in the Parliament of 7th convocation. Yerevan court has approved a My Step alliance will have 23 female lawmakers in fresh arrest warrant against the the Parliament, the Prosperous Armenia party — 5 man who led a criminal investiga- female MPs and the Bright Armenia party — 4 female tion into the 2008 post-election MPs. violence in Armenia during for- Snap parliamentary elections were held in mer President Serzh Sargsyan’s Armenia on December 9. Based on the election rule. results, three political forces — My Step alliance, The former official, Vahagn Prosperous Armenia and Bright Armenia parties Harutiunyan, was charged in late have been elected to the Parliament. October with forging factual evi- My Step alliance will have 88 seats, Prosperous dence to cover up the Armenian Armenia 26 and the Bright Armenia party 18 seats.
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